I think the people who say we need satire often mean, ‘We need satire of them, not of us. - Tom Lehrer

I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava.

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now.